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First 802.11n Products Breaking Out

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the new-protocols-sooo-exciting dept.

capt turnpike writes "If you're hooked up to a fat pipe, but want mobility, it looks like the new 802.11n standard might have some promise. eWEEK.com got their hands on some of the upcoming products and put the new devices through their paces." From the article: "The 802.11n task group is aware of the current draft's issues with legacy wireless LAN devices (specifically with how 802.11n shares bandwidth with attached legacy clients), and representatives from Cisco and Motorola broke off to look into the issues before the next meeting of the draft subcommittee, which is scheduled for May. Expectations vary widely, depending on whom you talk to. In previous conversations with Dave Borison, Airgo's director of product marketing, we leaned that Airgo is not making chip sets based on the draft standard because the company thinks the issue of legacy interoperability is significant enough to necessitate small modifications to the silicon."

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  1. First Post by Viriatus · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    First Post

    1. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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    2. Re:First Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Klick

  2. Re:Grammer, not grammar. by mmell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "The ending of a sentence with a preposition is a practice up with which I will not put." - Guess who said it?

  3. Re:Grammar by feloneous+cat · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Either use "to whom you talk" or "who you talk to", but don't half-assed try to make yourself look English compliant when you just end up butchering the language.

    Next we'll get into how spelling is a key component of communication and whether Times-Roman is far more readable than Courier...

    This is Slashdot, not "where to bitch about other people's use of the English language".

    Sheesh!

    Feloneous

    --
    IANAL, but I've seen actors play them on TV
  4. Re:Grammar by stupidfoo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Courier is better, you twit!

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